Table 1.
Stroke incidence rate, prevalence, and mortality
| Variable | Value |
|---|---|
| Incidence rates, all ages (per 100,000/yr)* | |
| Overall, crude | 216 |
| Overall, age-standardized† | 232 |
| Male† | 230 |
| Female† | 235 |
| Age, ≤54 yr | 61 |
| Age, 55–74 yr | 348 |
| Age, ≥75 yr | 463 |
| Prevalence, age ≥ 19 yr (%)‡ | |
| Overall, crude | 1.71 |
| Overall, age-standardized† | 1.37 |
| Male† | 1.56 |
| Female† | 1.19 |
| Age, 19–54 yr | 0.53 |
| Age, 55–74 yr | 3.72 |
| Age, ≥75 yr | 7.02 |
| Mortality, all ages (per 100,000/yr) (%)§ | |
| Overall, age-standardized∥ | 29.6 |
| Male∥ | 37.4 |
| Female∥ | 23.6 |
| Age, 19–54 yr | 6.8 |
| Age, 55–74 yr | 60.9 |
| Age, ≥75 yr | 605.1 |
*
Incidence of stroke was adopted from the 2006 Korean Center for Disease Control & Prevention Report,12 which estimated the rates using data obtained in 2004;
†
Standardization was made using the age structure of the general population in the 2005 Census of Korea;
‡
Prevalence of stroke was calculated using the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database from 2013 to 2014 in the general population ≥19 years of age;
§
Mortality of stroke was obtained using the Cause of Death Statistics in 2015;
∥
Standardization was made using the age structure of the general population in the 2005 Population and Housing Census of Korea.